Pop of Color Black and White Trees | Acrylic Painting Tutorial

Black and White is a huge trend in painting right now. So I thought I would do a 2 part video showing how you can make a modern black & white treescape acrylic painting on canvas. This is super easy and fun  DIY project for beginners. The materials are a large flat brush (sponge brush is ok), a sea sponge, a plastic credit card and acrylic paints in black, white and your choice of color.

Black and White Trees Video (Part 1) shows how to do the black and white trees.

Pop of Color Video (Part 2) shows how to add color to one of the trees. I show turquoise, yellow and purple in the video but you can refer to my pink cherry tree or red oak tree videos if you prefer those colors. The steps are the same. Hope you enjoy!

And as a bonus I also have a Black and White Paris Eiffel Tower with red trees acrylic painting tutorial. It will be a live stream class on July 23, 2016 at 2pm CST. The recording will be available to watch anytime after that.

Detour! Paris!!

Well looks like my butterflies are going to have to wait a few weeks. I got two new commissions this week that need to be completed ASAP. One is a mural for a nursery and the other is a painting of a Paris street scene. I think I will do a series of work in progress photos of the Paris painting. It will be very detailed and colorful. Here is the initial (very) rough sketch...


Starting to rough in the canvas...


Didn't like the perspective on the small background buildings so I made them bigger.


Adding some detail to buildings. Also changed the curve of the street so street light can be added.


Adding more details, tower appears somewhat crooked...


Didn't like how dark the foreground was so I added light to the windows of flower shop. Straightened out the eiffel tower also. Almost finished now...


Detail added to Anna's Cafe building, windows still need work. Chalked in rest of details, may add more people, not sure yet if it's needed.


Finished except for girl with poodle and other people if client wants them. Waiting to hear back.


I added some people. I also changed the sign color on the florist shop.


More details added. People at cafe now. People still need some shading.


Finished!